Ruagea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image = Florae Columbiae (Plate CXXVI) (8205962358).jpg

|taxon = Ruagea

|authority = H.Karst.

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

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Ruagea is a genus of plants in the family Meliaceae.{{cite web |url= https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/63S9H |title= Ruagea H.Karst. |author= |date=n.d. |website=Catalogue of Life |publisher=Species 2000 |access-date=February 2, 2025}} It includes nine species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Guatemala to Venezuela and Bolivia.{{cite web |url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26831-1 |title= Ruagea H.Karst. |author= |date=n.d. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date= 2 July 2025}} Most species are small or medium-sized trees native to montane rain forest and cloud forest in the Andes and Central American mountains, while Ruagea glabra and R. insignis also grow in lowland rain forests.Blanca M Rojas-Andrés, Yuliia Lihanova, Terence D Pennington, Alexandra N Muellner-Riehl, Phylogenetics of the Andean tree genus Ruagea (Meliaceae): implications for taxonomy, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 201, Issue 4, April 2023, Pages 443–454, https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boac068